re: Serious questions about the "millions of us already had/recovered from this" theory

I used a steady dose of a generic Nyquil lite cough syrup. Still didn't do much to slow down the cough but helped me rest.

Yes indeed, that sore throat is one of the common complaints, that is why we do a strep test on them.

Cough is common, non productive mostly.

X-ray is negative, except for the elderly with other medical issues.

Fever is elevated but nothing Tylenol cannot reduce, 101 to 102 is usual.

Sore throat is just the biggest complaint and feeling bad. Not flu A like, we can tell those people right away because they looked bad, no we are talking about people in there 20's and 30's.

Don't know and we never will unless an antibody titre is developed for this test. I still believe it was here earlier than advertised.

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The common cold is actually from one of the rhinoviruse

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A Coronavirus also accounts for some common colds.

You likely did not have covid-19. Either way sounds like you are well now so good news.

We were getting slammed in ER. I could barely keep up with the flu and strep kits as we were going through them so fast.

Just a bunch of negative tests, doesn't mean the people were not sick, they were just sent home with fluids, fever reducers, rest and come back if you get worse, aka viral syndrome.

As soon as this corona virus hit and people were told to stay home our patient load in ER dropped. We had people calling to see if we had corona virus patients because they would not come if we did.

I've said it multiple times on here but my wife and youngest son were both sick as shite with dry, unproductive cough, high fevers, and tested negative for influenza but discharged and treated for "unspecified viral infections".

This was January into February and the son was first, lasted about three weeks, then as he was recovering the wife got the exact same symptoms. Two others of us in the house, and we never had any symptoms of anything at all, even slightly.

This shite has been here. Mass antibody tests need to be done soon and reported to the CDC. The truth will come out. I'm personally 99% positive in my gut that it has already cycled through my household.

my nurse-daughter says her clinics also saw similar symptoms back in December..... negative flu tests, too.

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Think about this for a minute.

If millions of us "already had this and recovered", the graph of new cases discovered would look like what?

And as testing was ramped up even further it would look like what?

...what does it actually look like?

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If all of us that had this mystery crud flooding Dr's offices in December, January, and February were tested for the Wuhan virus back then, then this artificial "spike" that is resulting from the very recent start of testing would not be a spike and would be more of a flat curve.

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Is it possible all the people back in Dec and Jan who had these symptoms couldn't have been from Covid or do the experts know for sure it's only been in the U.S. since mid January at the absolute earliest?

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My experience mirrors yours.

Mrs. M. and I both got sick the Friday (Mrs. M.) and Saturday evening (Me) before Christmas 2019. I drove her to the walk-in clinic Friday and she drove me Sunday. Both tested negative for flu. Mucinex OTC for her with a pack of steroids and 10 days of antibiotics. Same for me but they also gave me a prednisone injection. She improved but relapsed and I had to take her back Christmas Eve when she too was given a prednisone injection and a breathing treatment.

We both had the symptoms you described with breathing difficulties very early on and persisting over the course of our illness getting slowly better near the end of it. We're both in our mid-late 60s.

All three physicians that saw us confirmed we were negative for flu and probably had the new flu that was showing up so much at that time. "Seems like a flu sort of, maybe something new the flu shot missed is my guess." Almost a direct quote.

Both of us were diagnosed with bronchitis and told stay on top of it because we were not too far away from pneumonia and told it was good we came in immediately when we first got sick.

We self isolated. Our family Christmas celebration was postponed until New Year's Day and she and I were washed out physically and still had some hacking coughing right up to the Tigers dismantling of Clemson, 42-25.